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Main Pod Girl is a pop culture podcast hosted by artist and songwriter AJ Marks, with special guests ranging from popstars, hit songwriters, r/popheads team members, high-profile journalists and music content creators, as we talk about our shared love for pop music.
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The ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY aims not just to promote, but to understand, democracy. Global in its outlook, multifaceted in its purposes, the Mitchell Center seeks to contribute to the ongoing quest for democratic values, ideas, and institutions throughout the world. In THE ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER PODCAST, we interview scholars, journalists, and public thinkers grappling with the challenges facing our democracy. Many of the episodes are linked to our other programming ...
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We're celebrating Brat summer by discussing the art of album rollouts with a roundtable of Rolling Stone Senior Editor Brittany Spanos, Billboard Executive Digital Director Katie Atkinson and freelance journalist Rachel Brodsky! We cover all the big pop releases of this year and former years through the different stages of an album rollout.…
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AUDREY JAQUISS sits down with Penn Professor ERIC ORTS to explore the future of environmental regulation and politics in light of recent Supreme Court decisions. In the last two years, the Court has significantly curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to protect wetlands and regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Th…
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Billboard's very own Jason Lipshutz and Andrew Unterberger join the show to discuss 2024's game-changing breakout stars: Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Tommy Richman, Benson Boone, Hozier, Tinashe, Charli XCX and more! Also approaching the midway point of the decade, we cast our ideal Mount Rushmores of early 2020s popstars.…
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Miley, what's good? In this episode, we get into all things Miley with an all-star lineup of pop culture YouTubers: Mike's Mic, Ashley Norton and Mila Tequila. This nostalgia tour takes us through some behind the scenes insight on the initial casting process of Hannah Montana, to Miley's Bangerz-filled breakout, to her Endless Summer Vacation victo…
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DR. ROBIN S. BROOKS, career diplomat and former Special Advisor to the Vice President for Europe, Russia, Multilateral Affairs, and Democracy, delves into the intricacies of democracy. The discussion explores the pivotal role of elections and the alarming phenomenon of democratic backsliding, particularly evident in ex-Soviet States. Dr. Brooks she…
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This episode focuses on the recent passage of a foreign aid package by the House of Representatives, which includes aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The delay in passing the bill raised concerns about America's reliability in fulfilling its international commitments. The episode explores how partisan divides are reshaping views on foreign policy…
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One of pop music's secret (semi-precious) weapons, Justin Tranter, joins us on Main Pod Girl to discuss their hits, career and what they have in the pipeline. Listen to stories about the behind the scenes writing sessions for Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Chappell Roan, DNCE, Bebe Rexha, Imagine Dragons, and more! We also play Popheads Go…
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Priyanka is the first to accomplish many things... the first winner of Drag Race Canada, the first drag queen on the cover of Elle Canada, and now the first drag queen to become an official Main Pod Girl! We talk everything from her EP Taste Test to her upcoming debut album, and play Call DM Block, Pop Quiz and Musical Mad Libs!…
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AUDREY JAQUISS interviews RHIANA GUNN-WRIGHT, Climate Policy Director of the Roosevelt Institute. They delve into discussions on the intersection of climate policy with issues such as white supremacy, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and economic concerns. Gunn-Wright explores the importance of universality in climate policy and strategies for na…
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Barbara McQuade, a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, discusses her new book Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America. Barbara argues disinformation is a threat to democracy. However, the larger threat is not from foreign adversaries, but those within the country who use disinformation for political gain. Still, the even larg…
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We've had enough of the term "cultural reset" getting thrown around, so naturally we made a comprehensive timeline of every cultural reset in the past 50 years. Journalist Lina Morgan and YouTubers Mic the Snare and Todd in the Shadows all join the panel to help us flesh out this timeline. Let us know in the comments if we missed anything!…
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JONATHAN BLITZER, staff writer at The New Yorker, discusses his recent book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. According to Blitzer, immigration policy happens at the intersection of international relations and domestic politics. In this episode, he uses personal stories to help explain his…
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Join Secretary MARCIA LIMA and Penn Professor MICHAEL G. HANCHARD in a candid conversation on the pervasive nature of anti-blackness in Brazil and the United States. Lima currently serves as the Secretary of Affirmative Action Policies and Combatting and Overcoming Racism at the Ministry of Racial Equality in Brazil. This conversation examines para…
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Interviewer: AUDREY JAQUISS. Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability and Professor at Boston University, BENJAMIN SOVACOOL, delves into the crucial concept of energy justice. Sovacool unravels its definition and examines the demographics and locations where it is most pertinent. Distinguishing energy justice from climate or environmenta…
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Disney star-turned-Grammy nominee Coco Jones joins the show and proves her Main Pod Girl status. We go over how a YouTube livestream changed her entire career, getting cast in her hit show Bel-Air, her upcoming debut album, and being nominated 5 times in this year's Grammy Awards! Plus, we play Popheads Gone Viral and Song Superlatives!…
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Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. Associate Professor at Georgetown University, JOSHUA CHERNISS, explores the dynamic relationship between diversity of thought and democracy, acknowledging it as both a core element of democracy's existence while also a significant challenge to its sustenance. He challenges the assumption that democracy will endure, emphasi…
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Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. Philadelphia is a city grappling with complex dynamics surrounding policing, criminality, and a commitment to rehabilitation. HELENA VON NAGY, an Assistant District Attorney in the Municipal Court, delves into the intricacies of Philadelphia's criminal justice system, narrating her day-to-day experiences working at the hea…
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Our newest Main Pod Girl Dev takes us step-by-step through her incredible career, from "Like a G6", to using same-sex pronouns in pop songs, to going independent, to releasing her new Spanglish songs! We also gush about our love for Slayyyter, Doja Cat and Michael Medrano, and play the games Who Ya Gonna Call? and Song Interrogation.…
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Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. On the cusp of a crucial election for Virginia, political activist JOSH STANFIELD discusses the stakes in his second AMC podcast appearance in an interview with political scientist Matthew Berkman. With this being the first legislative election for both Congressional chambers under new maps designed after the 2020 cens…
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Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. In his recent book, The Principle of Political Hope, political theorist LOREN GOLDMAN attempts to avoid the sense of inevitability that creeps into political thought, either as optimistic faith in unstoppable progress or pessimistic despair at a broken world. Engaging with thinkers such as Immanuel Kant, Ernst Bloch, Charl…
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Interviewer: AUDREY JAQUISS. The California legislature has passed two bills, now awaiting Governor Gavin Newsome’s signature, that potentially open up a new frontier in environmental law and climate action. As law professor MICHAEL GERRARD and Wharton professor ERIC ORTS explain, SB 253 would require that companies disclose their carbon emissions,…
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Interviewer: KIM FERNANDES. Our perspective on emerging technology such as A.I. is often future-oriented and technocratic, focused on how its design features might someday transform the world – and, above all, the advanced economies of the world – in ways wanted and unwanted. In their work at the Data & Society Institute, RIGOBERTO LARA GUZMÁN and …
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Popstar and 2010s hit maker Bonnie McKee, responsible for co-writing smash hits "Roar", "American Girl", "Dynamite", "Teenage Dream", "Hold It Against Me", "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" and many more, joins Main Pod Girl to dish on her upcoming re-recorded album Hot City, and how it took 10 years to see the light of day! We also play a round of Ca…
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Hit songwriters Wrabel (P!nk, Kesha, Backstreet Boys), Delacey (Halsey, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato) and Nate Campany (Dua Lipa, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rina Sawayama) team up with Main Pod Girl to give us an inside look at the songwriting industry, as well as their new music in their artist projects! We discuss the recent interpolation trend, whether or …
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Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. In a repeat of the debt-ceiling crisis of the Obama years, House Republicans are threatening to maintain the current $31-trillion limit on borrowing by the federal government, thus raising the specter of imminent default. Wharton Professor ERIC ORTS, in a return to the podcast, worries that this time Republican brinksm…
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Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? If so, then get ready for the Katycast! For this extra special episode, we assemble pop culture YouTuber Mila Tequila and Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos to help us dive into the wacky world and bulletproof discography of Katy Perry. Stick around until the end of the episode to hear our Top 5 Katy Perry Music Vi…
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Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. Social justice movements are often defined by high-visibility moments that succeed in crystallizing new attitudes and enlarging the scope of national debate. What often follows, as media scholar and activist RACHEL KUO explores in her work, is a slow death by a thousand cuts: co-optation, backlash, internal discord…
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